Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age / / ed. by David J. Rothman, David Blumenthal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Blumenthal, David,; Declercq, Eugene,; Dimick, Matthew,; Hall, Mark,; Madison, Kristin,; Painter, Michael W.,; Rodwin, Marc A.,; Rosenbaum, Sara,; Rothman, David J.,; Rothman, Sheila M.,; Rozario, Natassia M.,; Suchman, Mark C.,; Tomes, Nancy,
• HerausgeberIn: Blumenthal, David,; Rothman, David J.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Blumenthal, David.; Dimick, Matthew.; Hall, Mark A.; Madison, Kristin.; Painter, Michael.; Rodwin, Marc.; Rosenbaum, Sara.; Suchman, Mark.; Tomes, Nancy Jane.
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.) :; 19

With computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social, and professional implications of the new technology. These essays explore how Health Information Technology (HIT) may alter relationships between physicians and patients, physicians and other providers, and physicians and their home institutions. Patient use of web-based information may undermine the traditional information monopoly that physicians have long enjoyed. New IT systems may increase physicians' legal liability and heighten expectations about transparency. Case studies on kidney transplants and maternity practices reveal the unanticipated effects, positive and negative, of patient uses of the new technology. An independent HIT profession may emerge, bringing another organized interest into the medical arena. Taken together, these investigations cast new light on the challenges and opportunities presented by HIT.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Expecting the Unexpected: Health Information Technology and Medical Professionalism -- Chapter 2. Quality Regulation in the Information Age: Challenges for Medical Professionalism -- Chapter 3. The "Information Rx" -- Chapter 4. When New Is Old: Professional Medical Liability in the Information Age -- Chapter 5. Patient Data: Professionalism, Property, and Policy -- Chapter 6. The Impact of Information Technology on Organ Donation: Private Values in a Public World -- Chapter 7. Changing the Rules: The Impact of Information Technology on Contemporary Maternity Practice -- Chapter 8. A Profession of IT's Own: The Rise of Health Information Professionals in American Health Care -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index